NOTE: THESE PICTURES ARE NOT THUMBNAILS.  THEY CAN NOT BE INCREASED IN SIZE.

The only specialist badges shown throughout the three Spithead Review programmes apart from the aircrew badges already shown, are the submariners badge, worn on the left breast of the jacket immediately above the top row of medals, and the navigator's yeoman badge worn on the right jumper cuff.

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A couple of others could have been mentioned like 'SHIPS DIVER' and  'PARACHUTE BADGE' [mainly telegraphists].

** There had long been a submarine badge in existence for RATINGS, but it was shunned and ridiculed by virtually all personnel.  It took the form of a single submarine throughout its length, and was a large woven badge.  It was sewn  onto the cuff of the right sleeve, and resembled a large sausage.  Officers had no specialist badge.  When the metal badge shown above was commissioned, it was for officers and ratings.

One other specialist badge deserves a mention here, namely that of the ROYAL YACHT service.  Again, this was a ratings badge [officers did not have a badge] and was worn on the right sleeve immediately above the ratings branch badge.  This is the badge  and I am also  showing you the picture of a good friend of mine, Danny Brown, who spent the whole of his naval career in the Royal Yacht Britannia.  Look at his right arm badge.   THIS IS A THUMBNAIL